A90278:106
Of the death of Christ, the price he paid, and the purchase he made.…
Of the death of Christ, the price he paid, and the purchase he made. Or, the satisfaction, and merit of the death of Christ cleared, the universality of redemption thereby oppugned: and the doctrine concerning these things formerly delivered in a treatise against universal redemption vindicated from the exceptions, and objections of Mr Baxter. / By J. Owen, minister of the gospel.Of the death of Christ, the price he paid, and the purchase he made. Or, the satisfaction, and merit of the death of Christ cleered, the universality of redemption thereby oppugned: and the doctrine concerning these things formerly delivered in a treatise against universal redemption vindicated from the exceptions, and objections of Mr Baxter. / By J. Owen, minister of the gospel.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
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2 He supposeth me, (if in so many mistakes of his, I mistake him not) to deny all Gracious Acceptance where the Idem is paid, which (in the present case) is false: I assert it necessary, because not paid per eundem: yea and that other person not procured by the Debtor, but graciously assigned by the Creditor.
3 To make up his Gracious acceptance in his latter sense, he distinguisheth of payments refusable, and not refusable; in the Application of which distinction unto the payment made by Christ, I cannot close with him.
For,
A Payment is refusable either absolutely and in it self, or upon supposal: The Death of Christ considered absolutely and in it self, may be said to be refusable as to be made a Payment; not a refusable payment: and that, not because not refusable, but because not a payment. Nothing can possibly tend to the procurement and compassing of any End by the way of Payment, with the Lord, but what is built upon some free Compact, Promise, or Obligation of his Own. But now consider it as an Issue flowing from divine ⟨p. 15⟩